Uwe Schütte
Auteur van Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geslacht
- male
Leden
Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 18
- Leden
- 117
- Populariteit
- #168,597
- Waardering
- 3.4
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 33
- Talen
- 2
The group faced struggles with identity, Nazi history, xenophobia in America, and producing new a music genre, which the author compares to Andy Warhol's art and factory.
I enjoyed learning about the space connection: Wernher Von Braun "proposed the utopian idea of setting up a permanent space station orbiting Earth as a basis for experiments .", and how their 2018 concert was linked live to astronaut on the ISS during the song Spacelab.
The author discusses historic automatons made to make music: Jacques de Vaucanson, Pierre and Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz, (Daft Punk), Les Robots Music.
He mentions Kraftwerk's: admiration of the film Metropolis film, the Children's TV show Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt.
How the band influenced Ladytron, Client, and Craftwife. He compares Sex Object (song) to Giorgio Moroder's I feel love.
He describes how the band reproduced sounds breathing, anvils, trains, cars, etc
Bauhaus influence on artwork, particularly Oskar Schlemmer Bauhaustreppe, and eventually the typeface used on album cover
Kraftwerk influenced by Peter Thomas orchestra's theme music to the German science fiction TV show Raumpatrouille Orion (1966), and their synchronization of visuals and music, use of the electronic flute, how the music reflects everyday sounds in a way like Smetana's Vlatava, and how they incorporated the GB Team cyclists cycling around the Manchester Velodrome during their performance there in 2009.
He described how the band transformed into artists, performing at the Tate and MoMA, and appreciated Emil Schult comics, the artists Gilbert and George, and produced Kraftwerk 3-D catalogue Munich exhibition 2011.
Kraftwerk 's principal of minimalism and privacy, Ralph Hütter's reservations about the internet as a communication tool and his known scorn for social media: "I am not a fan of the internet. I think it is overrated. Intelligent information is still intelligent information and an overflow of nonsense does not really help. In German, it's called Datenmüll: data rubbish
The autor also talks of how Bowie appreciated their music and plugged them on his Isolar tour.… (meer)